2014 Dr. Hubert van Tol Travel Fellowship

Principal Investigator:

Program Type:

Capacity building grants

Area of Research:

Neuropsychiatric and Mental Health

Competition:

Dr. Hubert van Tol Travel Fellowship

Province:

Ontario

Start Date: 2014

Total grant amount:
$1,279

Project Overview

Ms. Nancy Butcher, is a doctoral candidate who is conducting research using advanced brain imaging techniques to measure levels of the brain chemical dopamine, to differentiate between Parkinson’s disease and other motor neuron defects. She used her travel fellowship to attend the PET Tracer Pharmacokinetics and Data Analysis Procedures conference in Amsterdam, on November 17th-19th, 2014.

Brain Canada is a national non-profit organization headquartered in Montréal, Québec that enables and supports excellent, innovative, paradigm-changing brain research in Canada.